I am in awe this morning with the most random story I have heard in a very longtime -- everyone remembers chef Julia Child and her famed cooking shows that ran for years (plus she penned a number of cookbooks) Quite possibly you found her style a wee bit on the dry side (at least I did when I was a child). Alas the truth is revealed four years after her death at 91 that she was a spy during WWII. Is it just me or is she truly the last person you would ever expect to be a spy....which I guess is the point, right?
Perhaps Martha Stewart was never really in jail - maybe her whole scandal was part of a secret espionage ploy! Mrs. Child's name has just been released with 24,000 other names who at some point did a little spy work on behalf of the United States Government!
I am really curious to what kind of spy work she did. I have this vision of her teaching James Bond how to make the perfect accoutrement for his martini.
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The woman was amazing. She not only served in the OSS, she served in the China Burma India Theatre, with all that humiditiy and malaria and funk. She was married to a U.S. diplomat to France, who also happened to be one of her compatriots in the OSS. and enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu because she hated sitting around doing nothing as a diplomat’s wife, and excelled despite the fact that the instructors resented her being an American and a woman, and ignored her. She cooked for President Eisenhower, IIRC. The woman kicked ass.
Who do you think trained McGyver?????
I first learned about this at the Spy Museum in Washington, DC. Fasnicating, but I wonder why Time is just now picking up this story?
I was fascinated by this womans history before, but now this?? Amazing. Too cool, thanks for finding this and sharing.
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